TreeHugger Picks: Green Social Networking
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 02. 7.07
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have exploded in popularity and changed the way that people everywhere use the internet to stay in touch and meet new people -- heck, even TreeHugger has a MySpace page. This idea hasn't been lost on other TreeHuggers and greenies, as a handful of sites have popped up that use the power of social networking on the 'net for good.
1) WorldCoolers and their desktop app is designed to give people concerned about the climate crisis the means to connect with one another, organize their efforts, and reach out to the larger community.
2) 2People is focused on creating an ongoing dialogue about global warming, and hope to create a network of 20 million climate voters by 2008, and make climate the dominant issue in the 2008 elections.
3) GUSSE combines social networking with urban sustainability to create a worldwide network people disseminating ideas about what's happening in their green corner of the world.
4) Zaadz has a formula for leverage change through social networking that goes like this: "you be the change + you follow your bliss + you give your greatest strengths to the world moment to moment to moment + we do everything in our power to help you succeed + you inspire and empower everyone you know to do the same + we team up with millions like us = we just affected billions = we (together) changed the world."
5) dotherightthing gets users together to collectively rate the performance of large corporations like Wal-Mart, Starbucks and Whole Foods, with the goal of getting companies and their executives talking to consumers.
There is also:
| care2connect
| ethicalnetwork
| commoncircle.net
| FiveLimes
In fact there seems to be a bit too many. People get spread out and have a hard time knowing which one is the most effective....
Also check out www.urth.tv, a social media network for conscious media.
~joey
And, Dianovo.com - your community for green & conscious living, business, and a healthy planet!
And, right now we're planting a tree for every Eco-Valentine you send through the site.
Rob, good point, any fave's
thanks for the Zaadz shout out! it's a privilege to get mentioned here on Treehugger :)
~C (for Change...)
Hey there. I recently launched a website to track important news about environmental change, clean technologies, and breakthroughs in sustainable living.
It's not exactly social networking, but rather social news filtering for the purpose of educating (kind of like Digg, but it's solely focused on technologies for sustainable living.)
It's at Ecotainable.com.
Please feel free to check it out. Thanks for the list of sites and all the commenters additions. I can't wait to check them out.
Blue Cobalt asked ".. any fave's"
Zaadz seems to have the most local people that I actually know in real life. So it is great for making local connections.
care2connect comes in second for the amount of local people. And it has some great activist tools (like online petitions)
FiveLimes has a great mapping feature
The others also have nice features back lack the local population to make them effective for grassroot activism.
There are really alot of great social networking sites poping up even with great niches. Seems that every business has a myspace these days even.
I Like to use this site Eswapit It has a swap portal to encourage reuse and "old style" bulliten board for environmental issues.
There's also http://greenvoice.com which is pretty new but nicely styled.
Hi! You can now sign up for edenbee.com a new social networking site with a green twist full of new innovative tools and applications to reduce that carbon footprint! Due to launch January 2008!
Hi! You can now sign up for edenbee.com a new social networking site with a green twist full of new innovative tools and applications to reduce that carbon footprint! Due to launch January 2008!
Good write up on the top 5 picks. I would strongly suggest that Tree Hugger to go a step fuether and have a regular daily feature all the new sites and organizationals that share similar objectives. It is a great encouragement to evey social entrepreneur who takes action to help sustain our planet.
Good Work
Suresh
Greensense a green social network that transforms the perception of green into the soul's great adventures. Greensense stimulates and nurtures the creation of green goods, expand the availability of alternative goods for growth and ingenuity.
I am in business technology. Our industry contributes a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CARBON to the problem as we use energy to cool huge server farms known as data centers. Everyone (including treehugger.com) is a part of this problem. My site is more of a pure play social network as all the content comes from members- not a publisher.
You and your IT guy are welcome to join:
http://greentechnology.ning.com/
There are some very cool solutions, like virtualization, helping to addess this issue.
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hi, just want to add this one. What an excellent concept for just a buck. Talk about putting your moola where your mouth is. Just launched in Feb 08.
There's also WiserEarth (http://www.wiserearth.org).
It's an online social network for non-governmental organizations, groups and individuals who are addressing the central issues of our day. The site aims to help them to connect, build alliances and share resources.
www.greenchange.org is a new organization for people with green values. we believe in grassroots democracy, justice, non-violence and sustainability.